Disclaimer: I have become aware of BitCoin for last 1 hour. So, my knowledge and understanding is fairly limited. However, I already have strong opinions on this. I am curious to hear what community thinks of it.

Although Satoshi was using British spelling in his posts, his posting times (well, rather his non-posting=sleeping times) indicated that he was from the East Coast.

So here is my very personal theory about the whole Bitcoin thing:

The NSA or some other US government agency (Fed) decided to try a social experience if a virtual currency could get popular. There could have been several reasons for the experience:

1. Can a virtual money get popular and if so, how fast?
2. If it is a quasi-anonymus payment, can it still be used to locate criminals/terrorists?
3. If it does work, could a government issue such a currency in the future?
etc.etc.etc.

So in my theory, the secrecy of the makers was necessary, because nobody really likes a government issued freedom money. Also, the anonymity is kind of BS, because if a high tech entity gets into it, they can follow the cointrail, the whole blockchain is nothing but a ledger.... Not to mention the earliest coins are still unused, and this could be explained if they were mined by a bunch of government employees, who were not allowed to rip the benefits.
People knowing more about coding assume the code was done by a group, not just one person. If it was one person only, he had to work a lot on it and now when he could cash in, there they are the earliest coins sitting unused.

I might be completely wrong, but that is a plausible scenario and explains a couple of things...

It's working. And will continue to work. Bitcoin, is a debt-free currency, which threatens the entire fractional-reserve, Central Banker system. They can't shut it down. It's not tulip bulbs. Saturation is miniscule at 125$ bucks per bitcoin, supply is CAPPED, and available at increasing difficulty. I'm going to buy the dips. Also get in with copy-cats during the early stage. Litecoin looks good.